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Heinz Werner

Bio: Heinz Werner is an academic researcher from Clark University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Perception & Tonic (physiology). The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 86 publications receiving 7459 citations. Previous affiliations of Heinz Werner include University of California, Berkeley & Wayne County Training School.


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Heinz Werner1
01 Jan 1940

1,873 citations

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TL;DR: The effects of Stroop Color-Word Test in Childhood, Adulthood, and Aging and its application in Genetic Psychology are studied to investigate the role of language impairment in aging.
Abstract: (1962). Interference Effects of Stroop Color-Word Test in Childhood, Adulthood, and Aging. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 47-53.

581 citations


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01 Jan 1958
TL;DR: The psychology of interpersonal relations as mentioned in this paper, The psychology in interpersonal relations, The Psychology of interpersonal relationships, کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Abstract: The psychology of interpersonal relations , The psychology of interpersonal relations , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)

15,254 citations

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01 Dec 2014
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

5,768 citations

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TL;DR: It is concluded that recent theories placing the explanatory weight on parallel processing of the irrelevant and the relevant dimensions are likely to be more sucessful than are earlier theories attempting to locate a single bottleneck in attention.
Abstract: The literature on interference in the Stroop Color-Word Task, covering over 50 years and some 400 studies, is organized and reviewed. In so doing, a set of 18 reliable empirical finding is isolated that must be captured by any successful theory of the Stroop effect. Existing theoretical positions are summarized and evaluated in view of this critical evidence and the 2 major candidate theories ―relative speed of processing and automaticity of reading― are found to be wanting. It is concluded that recent theories placing the explanatory weight on parallel processing of the irrelevant and the relevant dimensions are likely to be more sucessful than are earlier theories attempting to locate a single bottleneck in attention

5,172 citations

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TL;DR: A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed, which proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in working memory varies among individuals.
Abstract: A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed. The theory proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in working memory varies among individuals. Individual differences in working memory capacity for language can account for qualitative and quantitative differences among college-age adults in several aspects of language comprehension. One aspect is syntactic modularity: The larger capacity of some individuals permits interaction among syntactic and pragmatic information, so that their syntactic processes are not informationally encapsulated. Another aspect is syntactic ambiguity: The larger capacity of some individuals permits them to maintain multiple interpretations. The theory is instantiated as a production system model in which the amount of activation available to the model affects how it adapts to the transient computational and storage demands that occur in comprehension.

4,000 citations

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TL;DR: Prochaska et al. as mentioned in this paper studied how individuals change on their own compared with change in formalized treatments, and identified five basic processes of change, which can be applied at either the level of the individual's experience or environment.
Abstract: Transtheoretical therapy is presented as one alternative within the Zeitgeist seeking a synthesis for the increasing proliferation of therapeutic systems. From a comparative analysis of 18 leading systems, five basic processes of change were identified. Each process can be applied at either the level of the individual's experience or environment. In studying how individuals change on their own compared with change in formalized treatments, four stages of change have been identified. Individuals changing within and without therapy appear to apply three verbal processes of change in the contemplation and determination stages and then apply two behavioral processes in the action and maintenance stages. Rather than being theoretically incompatible, the verbal processes are most important in preparing clients for action, while the behavioral processes become most important once clients have committed themselves to act. Psychotherapy appears to be approaching a crisis or a new wave of creativity. The potential for crisis comes in part from the unprecedented pace at which new therapies are being placed on the market (Prochaska, 1979). In 1975 Parloff reported that there were 130 therapies on the therapeutic marketplace (or jungleplace as he more aptly described it). By 1979 Time magazine was reporting that there were over 200 therapies, and that the confusion of over-choice was adding to the depression of psychiatry. Divergence has dominated the past decade of development within the field of psychotherapy (Prochaska, 1979). Yet divergent 1 This work was partially supported by Grant CA27821 from the National Cancer Institute. * Requests for reprints should be sent to James O. Prochaska, Dept. of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881. CARLO C. DI CLEMENTE Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences thinking has been characterized by Guilford (1956), among others, as a necessary part of creativity. The increased divergence in psychotherapy thus provides the potential for a new wave of creativity. What is needed to prevent the increasing divergence from leading to fragmentation, confusion and chaos and allow it to be the foundation for a more fertile future? Heinz Werner's (1948) theory of development may serve as a guide in this regard. Development, as opposed to other forms of change, such as regression or chaos, is characterized by a combination of increasing differentiation and hierarchic integration. The increasing production of new forms of psychotherapy may indeed be an expression of the increasing differentiation of a growing discipline like psychotherapy. Increasing differentiation alone, however, can become like a cancer of uncontrolled growth that threatens to destroy the very body of knowledge in which it is growing. Unless increasing differentiation is matched by more effective forms of integration, then crisis rather than creativity will be the result. In Guilford's (1956) terms an increase in divergent thinking needs to be followed by higher levels of convergent thinking. What have been some of the professional responses to the increasing divergence in psychotherapy? Psychiatry's depression over the increased confusion is being treated in part by an increased reliance on chemotherapy. The emphasis on medication has the advantage of reaffirming psychiatry's medical identity and of relying on treatments that have perhaps the most consistent empirical support {Time, 1979; Luborsky, 1975). Clinical social workers have mounted a se-

3,750 citations